SCHOOL-BASED RESIDENCIES
By attending our productions, students experience first-hand how professional artists adapt books into plays or musicals. During our Artist Residencies, students take on the role of artist when they transform curriculum-based books (chosen by their teacher) into plays, songs and musicals. Read below to learn more about Making Books Sing's Residency Curriculum, 2004-05 Schedule and Fees.
Residency Curriculum
Before a residency begins, Making Books Sing conducts up to three Planning Workshops involving classroom teachers, school administrators, teaching artists and our Education Director. Every residency class also receives a Teacher's Resource Packet.
Under the guidance of a gifted drama teaching artist , residency classes use age-appropriate drama exercises, improvisation and theatre games to explore their book's literary elements from characters to plot to themes.
In Early Childhood grades , the curriculum focuses on literacy readiness, cooperation and self-expression.
First through fifth-grade students work in whole or small groups to translate their drama work into a written play. They move through writing original drafts to edits to final drafts, with staged readings throughout the process. Junior high students go a step further with a deeper emphasis on character development, playwriting structure and performance.
For longer residencies, a school may choose to have a composer work with students to create a song for their play.
All residencies conclude with a Sharing Day , when residency students at each school read each other's books, perform their work for each other and reflect on their process as playwrights.
Making Books Sing publishes a comprehensive, color Anthology for each partner school. The Anthologies document the residency with teaching artist reflections, student plays, teacher observations, photographs and artwork.
2004-05 Schedule
October 2004- January 2005- Planning Sessions
February 2004 - Making Books Sing's Professional Theatre Production
January-May 2004 - 6-20 Session Residencies
May 2004 - Published Anthology of Student Plays
Fees
Each residency day includes four 45-minute sessions.
- 6 days $3,750
- 8 days $4,550
- 10 days $5,100
- 12 days $5,625
- Additional day $430 each
- Additional session $100 each |
